First, a Guest Garden. This is the Chattanooga garden of my mother in law, Cindy:
Can you believe these HUGE, lush hostas? I'm jealous! Luckily, she's offered to share some with me next spring.
My in-laws are Floridians at heart, and this Sago Palm they keep trying to grow is proof! It dies back every winter, and this year Cindy thought for sure it was goners until she discovered this new growth.
The bottle tree she asked for for Mother's Day (and my father in law bought her!), after seeing mine! They're big in Mississippi, and I bet she's going to start a trend in Tennessee! She has the coolest idea for changing out the bottles to match the seasons (red and green for Christmas, etc.).
This is their front yard. Isn't it beautiful??
Pink calla lilies - so pretty! She said critters got the rest of them this year.
She always admires Mexican petunia in Florida and Mississippi. We're not sure if it will be perennial in Chattanooga, but I bought her some at a Master Gardeners plant sale here this spring, and it's blooming. Hope you enjoyed Cindy's garden! Now for Part 2 of this post: Plant Profile.
I recently showed a picture of a young flower on my Pink Double Delight Coneflower, and lots of you oohed and aahed over it. Below are pictures of the plant and a close-up of the flower at maturity, in all its fluffiness.
It's a much smaller plant than a purple coneflower; about a foot or foot and a half tall. It's just as drought tolerant once established, but it was a little harder to establish - I spring-planted it three years ago and this is the first year it's done well. I ordered it online from the Crownsville Nursery. I've seen them in a lot of garden catalogs but never at a garden center.
And now for Part 3: A Shout Out. Do y'all know KMG? She's a master gardener with a great blog. Anyway, she saw sedum on my wish list and offered to mail me some! How nice is that?!
And then I get the package, and it turns out she sent me a huge variety, expertly packaged in plastic baggies with moist straw to retain moisture without rotting! Some were bareroot, and others were cuttings. I stuck most of it in pots (the cuttings dipped in rooting hormone) for the time being, since it's just about too hot to establish anything in the ground. It's all thriving two weeks later.
How special to have a plant from a garden blogger's grandmother! Thank you, KMG!!
P.S. Gracie wanted me to thank you for the box, er, I mean her new bed, too!
I recently showed a picture of a young flower on my Pink Double Delight Coneflower, and lots of you oohed and aahed over it. Below are pictures of the plant and a close-up of the flower at maturity, in all its fluffiness.
It's a much smaller plant than a purple coneflower; about a foot or foot and a half tall. It's just as drought tolerant once established, but it was a little harder to establish - I spring-planted it three years ago and this is the first year it's done well. I ordered it online from the Crownsville Nursery. I've seen them in a lot of garden catalogs but never at a garden center.
And now for Part 3: A Shout Out. Do y'all know KMG? She's a master gardener with a great blog. Anyway, she saw sedum on my wish list and offered to mail me some! How nice is that?!
And then I get the package, and it turns out she sent me a huge variety, expertly packaged in plastic baggies with moist straw to retain moisture without rotting! Some were bareroot, and others were cuttings. I stuck most of it in pots (the cuttings dipped in rooting hormone) for the time being, since it's just about too hot to establish anything in the ground. It's all thriving two weeks later. How special to have a plant from a garden blogger's grandmother! Thank you, KMG!! P.S. Gracie wanted me to thank you for the box, er, I mean her new bed, too!
